Talk:Computronium
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[edit] Brainsssss
Brains, of course, are not general purpose computers of the sort we're used to, but at least much of what they do can be described as computation, done very efficiently, at least in power usage.
Eh? Well, provide a ref for who thinks this is computronium of course but... aside from that...
... You can imagine a turing machine quite easily using nothing but your brain, so human brains are quite turing complete (and thus general purpose).
Or am I missing something?
80.126.238.189 04:06, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Fullerenes
There's some interesting stuff on using Rydberg atoms (or similar) as data storage units, but with the requirement that you have them trapped and isolated. Aren't fullerenes excellent atomic traps? As far as I know they can confine and isolate atoms for indefinite (1000+ years) amounts of time, and due to their small size and relatively cheap (compared to, say, a large magnetic ion trap to which the particles would be extremely sensitive) processing would be ideal for that application. AeoniosHaplo 21:00, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
- They can, but Rydberg atoms are much larger than fullerene molecules (the electron in the Rydberg state is far enough away from the nucleus to almost behave classically). The trapping applications I'd heard about were for non-excited trapped atoms. --Christopher Thomas 21:50, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
